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Shallotte To Charge Beauty Queens To Appear In Annua! Christmas Parade BY SUSAN USHER It may provoke a few references to Scrooge, but starting this holiday season, beauty pageant queens will pay an entry fee to appeal in Shallotte's annual Christmas parade, unless riding on a commercial float. Faced with higher parade costs and declining revenue, town alder men voted 3-2 at their Sept. 7 meet ing to charge the queens an entry fee rather than go up on the fees charged commercial entries or floats. The fee adopted is identical to that charged queens to participate in the Southport-Oak Island Cham ber of Commerce Christmas Festival Parade, which is also held the first Saturday in December. Mayor Sarah Tripp said she didn't anticipate it being a problem for the queens, "because most of them have commercial sponsorship." Each queen will be pay a $25 reg istration fee and provide her own car, banner and driver. The rules also set a cap of 25 on the number of queens that will be accepted in the parade. Last year approximately 20 partici pated, according to town hall secre tary Phoebe McLean, who is coordi nating the parade. She said queens who ride on commercial floats would not be charged since sponsors pay entry fees for the floats. Aldermen Wilton Harrelson and Paul Wayne Reeves were against the move. "! think this would he a big mis take," said Harrelson. He reminded feilow board members that some beauty queens receive appearance fees. In her opening comments, Mc Lean told the board, "At the rate we're going, sooner or later there won't be a Christmas parade. Each year I'm operating on less." McLean said most towns are faced with this problem because their local chamber of commerce handles the Christmas parade. Now coordinated by town em ployees, for many years the parade was organized by a committee of volunteers who solicited entries. Money raised from commercial entry fees and floats is used to help cover parade expenses. Some of those expenses include contributions of up to $200 each for Shriner units to help cover travel-related expens es, with the local Sudan Thunder bolts receiving $50 as the hometown unit; $50 each to cover transporta tion costs for participating bands; $50 for Santa Claus; $200 for news paper advertising; $175 per float for 15 floats ($2,625); and candy. This year the town may reserve fewer floats, McLean said, because the fee will increase to $190 each. The town at one time also provid ed a meal for the Shriners, but has since eliminated that, said Mayor Sarah Tripp. Fees for parade entries include $225 for a full float or $150 each if split by two businesses; $35 for indi vidual commercial entries; and new this year, the $25 fee for a beauty queen. Churches, civic groups and other not-for-profit organizations may enter at no charge. Entries are being accepted through Friday, Nov. 26. In other business, aldermen: ?Delayed a release due Portent Inc. for taxes for the years 1990, 1991 and 1992 for a parcel that had been sold to someone else, saying they didn't know if the new owner had been identified for tax purposes. ?Ended Michael Ferster's proba tionary employment as a police offi cer. Chief Rodney Gause had rec ommended probation not be extend ed a second time. Also on Sept. 7, the town's Board of Adjustment voted unanimously to grant a lot size variance requested by Bobby Long and Albert Hughes for H & L subdivision on N.C. 130 east, saying that compliance with the lot size requirement would create a hardship. The variance had been rec ommended by the town planning board. School Board Passes Personnel List Brunswick County Board of Education members Monday night approved a long list of teachers and other employees hired in the weeks before fall classes began. Among other actions, they filled the vacant assistant principal's post at West Brunswick High and vacated the same position at North Brunswick High. (See related story this issue.) The personnel list, as amended, was approved on a 4-1 vote, with District 5 Board member Yvonne Bright voting against it. "I just didn't approve of it," she said later. Teachers hired include these, by school: ?Union Elementary: Dawn Dill, Wilmington, spe cial education. ?Supply Elementary: Judy Auman, Bolivia, Chapter 1 parent educator; Gail Coles, Yaupon Beach, interim special education. ?West Brunswick: Arthur Clessuras, Ocean Isle Beach, Choices. ?Waccamaw Elementary: Melanie Champion, Hoiden Beach, physical education. ?South Middle: Kristyn Bahr, Wilmington, and Peg gy Reeves, Ocean Isle Beach, middle grades. ?Lincoln: Nona Baker, Leland, Reading Recovery; Sheila Hardison, Wilmington, elementary; Kimberly Keating, Wilmington, Chapter I Pre-K; Teresa Brandon, Wilmington, speech-language specialist. ?Leland Middle: Deborah Stapperfenne, Wilming ton, special education; SuAnn Burton, Castle Hayne, and Bruce Young, Wrightsville Beach, middle grades. ?North Brunswick: Myra Harris, Wilmington, inter im extended day English, 60 percent; Southport Elemen tary: Heather Nelson. Wilmington, and Katherine Woot en. Boiling Spring Lakes, elementary; Brookelyn El more, Greensboro, special education. ?South Brunswick High: Aleta Ross, Wilmington, social studies. ?Bolivia Elementary: Mary Nash, Southport, ele mentary; Amy Taylor, Wilmington, special education; Paige Hartgrove, Wilmington, 50 percent special educa tion; Helen Laugisch, Supply, interim elementary; ?Heather Smith, Ocean Isle Beach, Chapter I Pre-K home-based, Waccamaw, Bolivia and Supply elementary. Also hired were Glen Dowe, seven-hour custodian, Leland Middle; Wanda Marlowe, BEH teacher assistant, Supply Elementary; Garry Hill, Willie M. special educa tion teacher assistant, Shallotte Middle; Linda Bullard, head custodian, and Mark Williamson, interim 6-hour custodian, Supply Elementary; Susan Gore, interim teacher assistant, Waccamaw Elementary; Gina Gore, teacher assistant. Union Elementary; Gwendolyn Burck ley, interim school secretary, Shallotte Middle; Elizabeth Osiek, interim teacher assistant, Southport Elementary. Resignations were accepted from Southport Ele mentary guidance counselor Linda Wallace and Pupil Personnel and Support Services Director Judith Bab cock, whose last day was Monday. Babcock accepted an assistant superintendency in another state. Also resign ing were Nolie McDonald, cafeteria assistant, Shallotte Middle; and Lula Jones, custodian, Lincoln Primary. Retirements were approved for Geraldine Tobias of Wilmington, a middle grades teacher at South Bruns wick Middle; Carol Roycroft of Shallotte, an elementary teacher at Union Elementary; Mary McCoy, teacher as sistant, Bolivia Elementary; and Willie Webster, plum ber, maintenance department. Charles Alexander and Johnsie Gore were granted leave for the 1993-94 school term. Short-term leave was approved for Ellen Bulak, teacher assistant, Union. Foster McKoy, Lincoln Primary head custodian, was ap proved for short-term disability. Harold Johnson declined the JTPA remediation teacher post offered earlier. Gloria Williams of Wilmington, a teacher of the hearing impaired, was transferred from Lincoln Primary to Leland Middle; and Laura Beasley of Wilmington from Southport Elementary to Lincoln Primary. Other transfers include Patricia Mims, central office secretary to interim administrative assistant, Bolivia Elementary; Sheila Huskins, teacher assistant, from Union to Supply Elementary; Kenneth White, special education teacher assistant, South Brunswick High, to in-school suspension teacher assistant, South Brunswick Middle; Joseph White, JTPA remediation teacher assis tant, central office, to special education teacher assistant, South Brunswick High; Lori Varnum, Chapter I comput er specialist/records clerk to Chapter 1 secretary, central office; Joyce Cox, media assistant to teacher assistant, Supply Elementary. Ten substitute teachers were approved. 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